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quirk

/kwurk/US // kwɜrk //UK // (kwɜːk) //

诡异,诡计多端,诡辩,诡秘

Related Words

twist扭转,扭曲,缠绕,扭曲了vagary流言蜚语,变幻莫测,变幻无常,飘忽不定habit习惯,嗜好,惯性,体型trait特质,特点,特征,特质是aberration畸变,色差,偏差,畸形kink扭结,扭曲,扭绞,磕磕碰碰characteristic特性,特征,特点,特色peculiarity特异性,独特之处,特殊性,独特的地方mannerism习气,习性,习气主义,习气性idiosyncrasy特异性,特异功能,特异功能症,特异性问题eccentricity偏心率,偏心,偏心度,偏心量foible可笑之处,可怕性,泡沫,瑕疵whim心血来潮,突发奇想,灵感,突发事件humor幽默,幽默感,幽默风趣,幽默的crotchet钩针,钩编,钩画,钩住conceit构想,构思,观念,自负whimsy奇思妙想,异想天开,奇想,奇思异想fancy花式,幻想,花哨的,幻想的caprice任性,任情,任性的,任意妄为turn变成,转弯,变成了,转变

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
    • : a shift, subterfuge, or evasion; quibble.
    • : a sudden twist or turn: He lost his money by a quirk of fate.
    • : a flourish or showy stroke, as in writing.
    • : Architecture. an acute angle or channel, as one dividing two parts of a molding or one dividing a flush bead from the adjoining surfaces.an area taken from a larger area, as a room or a plot of ground.an enclosure for this area.
    • : Obsolete. a clever or witty remark; quip.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : formed with a quirk or channel, as a molding.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounoddity of personality, way of doing something
Forms: quirks
Synonyms
aberration畸变,色差,偏差,畸形characteristic特性,特征,特点,特色eccentricity偏心率,偏心,偏心度,偏心量foible可笑之处,可怕性,泡沫,瑕疵habit习惯,嗜好,惯性,体型idiosyncrasy特异性,特异功能,特异功能症,特异性问题kink扭结,扭曲,扭绞,磕磕碰碰mannerism习气,习性,习气主义,习气性peculiarity特异性,独特之处,特殊性,独特的地方trait特质,特点,特征,特质是twist扭转,扭曲,缠绕,扭曲了vagary流言蜚语,变幻莫测,变幻无常,飘忽不定caprice任性,任情,任性的,任意妄为conceit构想,构思,观念,自负crotchet钩针,钩编,钩画,钩住equivocation多虑,多意,多义性,多疑fancy花式,幻想,花哨的,幻想的fetish恋物癖,癖好,恋物情结,拜物教humor幽默,幽默感,幽默风趣,幽默的irregularity违规行为,违规现象,违规,不规则性knack诀窍,窍门,技巧quibble狡辩,争辩,调侃,争论不休singularity单一性,奇异性,奇点,单数性subterfuge潜规则,隐蔽性,伪装,掩饰turn变成,转弯,变成了,转变whim心血来潮,突发奇想,灵感,突发事件whimsy奇思妙想,异想天开,奇想,奇思异想idée fixe集思广益,集合思想,集思录,集合的想法

Examples

  • Faced with the quirk of playing in Tampa Bay’s home stadium, they looked like a road team.

  • This can cause quirks, so try setting it up on one smartphone before you bring in other people.

  • Humans, with all our quirks and biases, choose what experiment to conduct in the first place, and how to do it.

  • The company has succeeded by exploiting a regulatory quirk to create a virtual monopoly in publicly-traded shares of cryptocurrency.

  • Baikal seals are fans of bite-sized portions, and this dietary quirk may be why the seals are thriving.

  • And that luxury may be a quirk of America, or at least white America.

  • Familiarity with search-engines helps, a strange quirk of working in this retro medium.

  • Each member of the Bad News Bears of a team Terry ends up coaching has what should be a chuckle-worthy quirk.

  • Mental illness—real OCD, for example—is only a far far distant cousin of the cute personality quirk.

  • Enormously Oversized Rhinestone Earrings J. Crew is revered for its ability quirk up standby classics.

  • "This was a real horse on a real flight to the winning-post," added Crozier, with a quirk at the corner of his mouth.

  • It was the familiar voice he had often tried to place, but Floyd knew nobody named Quirk.

  • She set herself to the purpose of making Mrs. Quirk happy, devising a hundred means to accomplish this.

  • This Kathleen knew well, and she encouraged Mrs. Quirk to admire the flowers and other decorations.

  • "If I knew the man that had done it, sure I would make it quite unpleasant for him," said Mrs. Quirk.

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